Last week we were given a stark reminder of just how far the toy industry has to go in making great toys for girls that promote engineering, in the form of this Barbie travesty. Here's a nice antidote from a UX design firm called Slice of Lime: Nübi, a connected toy prototype that aims to teach basic programming…

Artist Dustin Cantrell took Kidrobot's classic Dunny toy and fused it together with a novelty favorite: the Tesla-inspired Plasma Globe. But even crazier, he's letting ToyCyte give one of these amazing creations away for free.